Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to all projects, services, and other resources offered by Coach Garner. Individual projects, services, or resources may have additional privacy notices that will be posted in the privacy policy. By visiting, using, or accessing Coach Garner in any other way, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at dan(at)coachgarner(dot)com.

1. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION The amount of information collected upon accessing Coach Garner is typical of most websites. This information will not be published or shared except allowed by this privacy policy.

IP and other information sent by your browser is automatically collected when you load a page from a Coach Garner server. This also includes referrer information, your browser and operating system type, and other information sent by your browser.

IP and other information sent by your browser is also collected when you complete certain actions on Coach Garner, such as posting a comment or editing. Such information is retained for a definite amount of time, depending on the type of log and the project.

Certain projects and services on Coach Garner allow anonymous users to contribute. These projects and services may publicly record the contributor’s IP address in the history. If a user wishes to hide such information, the user may create an account.

Cookies are sent by Coach Garner servers to your computer. These cookies are used to enhance your experience and may store your user preferences, username(s), authentication information, and other information designed to provide you with a better experience.

When creating an account on Coach Garner, you may have been asked to provide your personal information. The information you provide is stored on Coach Garner servers and will only be used as allowed by this privacy policy.

Users may authenticate to Coach Garner using third party authentication platforms enabled by Coach Garner. When using such authentication platforms, the platform provider will have access to information provided by the user. Such information is bound by the platform provider’s privacy policy.

When using third party authentication platforms, the platform provider may provide some details to Coach Garner in order for the authentication to be successful. Such information is stored on Coach Garner servers and its use is governed by this privacy policy.

Some projects and services on Coach Garner may provide users with messaging and other methods of communication. When these capabilities are used, Coach Garner may retain copies of the information you have transmitted through Coach Garner servers.

User contributions to most projects are retained indefinitely on Coach Garner servers and are publicly accessible on most projects. The user or IP address that made the contribution may be identified from the page history (or the page itself), and the content of the contribution is also available through the page history (or the page itself). In general, Coach Garner will not remove this information unless required to do so by law. Please note that logged in users will not have their IP address publicly recorded.

The services of other third party vendors may be utilized by Coach Garner. The information collected by third party vendors is subject to the privacy policy and other polices of the third party vendor.

Analytics information, such as referrers, browser capabilities, visit duration, and other standard analytics information provided by Google Analytics may be collected by certain projects and services on Coach Garner.

The information collected is not associated with a certain IP address and cannot be used to identify a user. Analytics information is kept to provide Coach Garner with information that will be used to provide future users with a better experience.

2. USE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION The information collected by Coach Garner may be used for the following purposes:

The information may be used to protect Coach Garner servers, users, rights, and other assets.

The information may be used to protect Coach Garner partners.

The information may be used to prevent and respond to abuse on Coach Garner and partner sites.

The information may be used to provide visitor statistics to improve the community’s experience(s).

The information may be used to ensure the smooth operation of Coach Garner servers and to aid in the resolution of technical issues.

3. RISK Users are advised to evaluate the risks of their actions. Users that accidentally disclose personal information may request an administrator or other user with the necessary permissions to remove the revision(s) containing the personal information. While each request is carefully evaluated, please note that there is no guarantee of its removal. If a page has been cached by Google, Coach Garner cannot directly remove that content. You may request assistance from Coach Garner staff, who have the ability to file a request with Google seeking the removal of the cached content.

Personally identifiable information disclosed by any user may be removed without warning.

4. LOCATION OF STORED INFORMATION Information is primarily stored within Canada and is therefore subject to the laws and regulations of Canada and other applicable jurisdictions. Backups of this information may be stored in other countries and are also subject to the laws and regulations of that country. Coach Garner will not store information or have servers located in countries deemed to have inadequate protection for Coach Garner, its users, rights, and other assets. Information may also be stored indefinitely on offsite backups that are not accessible from the Coach Garner network. Such backups will have IP information removed. Please note that while we will attempt to remove IP and other identifiable information from these offsite backups, there is the possibility that some remnants of information may remain. All backups are protected by this privacy policy and will not be released unless allowed by this privacy policy.

5. ACCESS TO INFORMATION Coach Garner grants access to information that is collected to certain users such as our staff members. Information may be released in the following circumstances:Information may be released to law enforcement agencies of the United States and Canada when Coach Garner is presented with a valid subpoena or compulsory request. Information may also be released to law enforcement agencies of the United States and Canada when Coach Garner believes it is reasonable to release such information to aid in investigations pertaining to the safety and security of Coach Garner, its servers, users, rights, and other assets. Information may be released for informal investigations at the discretion of Coach Garner.

Law enforcement agencies outside of Canada may be given information by Coach Garner if Coach Garner deems it necessary in order to protect Coach Garner servers, users, rights, and other assets. Partner sites may receive information from Coach Garner at their request, as specified in the agreement. Coach Garner will make good faith efforts to ensure that only trustworthy organizations and projects are partners. Information may be released to trusted individuals to protect Coach Garner, its servers, users, rights, other assets, and partner sites. In order for information to be released to trusted individuals who would not normally have access to such information, approval from Coach Garner security is required. This will be done at the discretion of Coach Garner.

IP and other information may be automatically sent to third party services if the user abuses Coach Garner. This is done through automatic anti-spam features and other features designed to protect Coach Garner. An abusive user is defined as one that is not utilizing Coach Garner in the way in which it was intended.

6. DISCLAIMER While Coach Garner has taken measures to protect the privacy of its users, Coach Garner cannot guarantee that user information will remain private. Coach Garner makes no guarantee against unauthorized access of private information stored on Coach Garner servers. By accessing Coach Garner, you agree to be bound by this privacy policy, the general disclaimer, and all policies on Coach Garner. By accessing Coach Garner, you also agree to release Coach Garner and its staff, from issues, concerns, or other incidents that may result from accessing Coach Garner. If legal action should be pursued due to incident on Coach Garner, you, the user, agree to pay all court costs and legal fees. By continuing to use Coach Garner, you agree to indemnify, or hold harmless, Coach Garner and its users of authority.

JURISDICTION AND VENUE By using this website, you expressly agree that, regardless of your physical location, that any claims or causes of action either relating to, or arising out of the use of this website, or the violation of the above Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy or Disclaimers, shall be brought in the appropriate state or federal court governing claims arising in the providence of Alberta, Canada.

APPLICABLE LAW The parties agree that the applicable law to be applied to the use of this website shall be, in all cases, the law of the Providence of Alberta.